Online Zoom Forum: An Evening with Prof Bart McGettrick.
Title: Education in Palestine Today.
Date: Wednesday 27 November 2024.
Time: 7pm-9pm (UK time).
Chair:
Dr Thomas Clough Daffern.
Description: For a year there has been constant reference to Gaza and to Palestine. It has been a war zone like no other where there has been devastation of buildings, infrastructures and communities. Schools and universities have been demolished and will need to be re-built. There will be no returning to what used to be there.
So what now? Professor Bart McGettrick chairs the International Board of Regents at Bethlehem University, and the Board of Governors of Tabeetha School in Jaffa. He will lead a Zoom discussion on how he sees education now and in the future in Palestine. This is an opportunity to hear at first hand about the current situation and to discuss the challenges that lie ahead.
Bio:
Professor Bart McGettrick:
Professor Bart McGettrick was Dean of Education at Glasgow University and at Liverpool Hope University.
Much of his current work relates to his involvement in the Middle East, and especially The Holy Land.
He has a wide interest in matters educational, and also is engaged in matters of ensuring humanitarian aid to the Middle East.
He continues to serve Scottish education in various ways and he speaks at many conferences in Scotland and overseas.
Bio:
Dr Thomas Clough Daffern:
Dr Thomas Clough Daffern is a philosopher, historian, peace studies expert, poet and religious studies specialist. He was awarded his PhD from the University of London for a thesis which explores the history of the search for peace, and which proposes a new field of historiography, Transpersonal History. He has taken initiations in many spiritual paths and runs the Commonwealth Interfaith Network. He is Director of the International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy (IIPSGP) which works across many academic fields to bring together all those with an interest in and a commitment towards the study of peace, nonviolence and philosophy. Thomas taught at the Muslim College 1990-1993 & for the University of London, & University of Oxford 1993-2003. As House of Lords, Research Seminar Convenor (1992-2001) he worked with Lords and MP’s to establish an All Party Group for Peace and Conflict Resolution and co-chaired 35 meetings in parliament on peace policy. He has written over 60 books and is a published historian, philosopher, poet, and specialist in interfaith peace-making. He founded the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for the Middle East (https://trcme.wordpress.com/) after many visits to Israel and Palestine and has friends on all sides of these agonising policy choices. He has consistently supported a two state solution and in 1991 he already called on Palestine to adopt a non-violent policy of resistance to stop giving Israel excuses to demonise and attack them. He is particularly interested in the religious and spiritual opportunities for peacemaking in the region and believes that between Christianity, Judaism and Islam, Bahaism and Zoroastrianism etc. there can be treaties and declarations of non-violence. For this purpose he has drafted the first Interfaith Peace Treaty (www.Interfaithpeacetreaty.wordpress.com). He sees education as a key resource for peacebuilding and served as a front line philosophy and religious studies teacher for 20 years in the UK, and is now running the International Delphic Academy to redefine what we mean by education as transformational self-knowledge. He also serves as Chair of the World Intellectuals’ Wisdom Forum (https://worldintellectualforumeurope.weebly.com).
An archive recording will be made for the EICSP archive.
NB: There will be no refund if you cancel your booking.
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